Tag: coleridge

  • The Ancient Mariner, illustrated by Mervyn Peake

    The Ancient Mariner, illustrated by Mervyn Peake

    Mervyn peake has been one of my favourites for a very, very long time. I think I was probably in my middle teens when I first read Gormenghast; having been brought up on a steady diet of fairly po-faced sub-Tolkien fantasy, Peake’s writing hit me like the Cure’s tour bus. It was probably my first…